A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.30

c11.s2.30

The excavations at Mathurā have yielded numerous specimens of pillars of stone railings associated with *stūpas*, both Jain and Buddhist. Most of the Buddhist ones were, I think, found on the site of Huvishka's monastery in the Old Jail or Jamālpur mound, now entirely removed. The Jain specimens came from the Kankālī mound, which included the remains of an early *stūpa* and two temples belonging to the Jains. The pillars have high-relief statuettes, usually of. females, on the front, and other